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Saturday, 30 March 2013

A wild Whooper on the boardwalk

Burdon Moor - No further sign of the StonechatLamesley water meadows - A pair of Gadwall on the flash pools.Shibdon Pond - Whooper Swan on the boardwalk today.

Whooper - wild, he's livid! [George Simspon]

The observer said 'I think
what must have happened is that other whooper’s must have flown past
calling and he has tried to join them as he was constantly calling himself, I don’t know if he collided with anything but he was
beside the bypassPoor thing did not make Iceland at Blaydon never mind the
continent

So I proceeded to walk him back to the pond up the pit line
, nice and steady we went till he spotted the teal pond. He then tried to get through the fence without any success slowly
I approached him it was when I got to close he attacked. So I grab him and carried him to the pond before realeasing
him I checked him for any sign of injury couldn’t find any but he does seem
to be very thin'